Spells: Abnormal fizzle rate at 40.

[Brinkman]

This was posted in late 1999 prior to kunark, the devs started talking to website owners such as Baelish and Graffe. I beleive this was posted in response to a question by graffe, who ran the major wizard site back in the classic days.

The int/wis part of it was always tricky. It did in fact play a part, but it was small. It's possible it was a typo and he meant to say .1% instead of 1%. Fizzles are capped at 95% success rate based solely on the lvl of the spell vs your skill. Int/wis wouldnt push you past that cap, but it did lower your fizzle rate if you were not max skill.